Last Days: The Week in Review

News Flash: Kim Davis Is a Real A-hole

MONDAY, AUGUST 31 Because we know you’re concerned, here’s more gossip from last night’s superfluous MTV Video Awards. MTV loves to manufacture as much drama as possible for this ceremony—because otherwise? No one would give a shit. However, MTV is proclaiming its innocence in regards to the onstage dustup between testy rapper Nicki Minaj and reformed hillbilly/host Miley Cyrus. To recap: Nicki was accepting her award for best hiphop video when she decided to interrupt her own speech with amini-diatribe about comments Miley allegedly made to the New York Times about Nicki’s refusal to be nice on Twitter. “Now back to this bitch,” Nicki snapped in Miley’s direction, “that had a lot to say about me the other day in the press… Miley, what’s good?” Refusing to wither beneath the steely glare of Nicki, Miley spun and barked back, “We all do interviews, and we all know how they can be manipulated. Congratufuckinglations, Nicki.” At this point, Nicki’s mic was shut off, but from what she was mouthing, it doesn’t look like she and Miley will be brunching with Taylor Swift and her new bestie Kanye West anytime soon. (Though these four would be awesome in a reboot of Mean Girls.)

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Oh, and one more quickie about the VMAs: In his acceptance speech for the Video Vanguard Award, Kanye West performed one of his trademark rambling speeches—though this one clocked in at a mere 11 minutes and almost… almost made a couple of salient points. However, his “drop the mic” moment came when he announced he would be running for president in 2020—inspiring the planet to go nuts and briefly consider that this utterly ridiculous proposal could ever possibly happen. And so OBVIOUSLY the press had to ask our current most ridiculous presidential candidate, Donald Trump, what he thought about Kanye’s proposed run in 2020. “I was actually watching [Kanye’s speech],” Trump responded, “and I said, ‘That’s very interesting. I wonder who gave him that idea?’” Who gave Kanye the idea that America’s highest office has been turned into a goddamned joke thanks to blithering idiots like Donald Trump? Hmmm… that would be YOU, Donald Trump. You should be very proud.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 More Duggar drama! When we last checked in on this clan of religious hypocrites, son Josh Duggar had been whisked away to a Christian-based rehab. According to onlookers talking to Radar Online, Josh hasn’t been seen attending meetings or the required religious services—and perhaps, he isn’t there at all. “Josh definitely wasn’t there,” one observant insider noted. “It was very strange.” So if he isn’t at a Bible-thumping rehab, where is he? Well… has anyone checked Ma and Pa Duggar’s basement to see if Josh is curled up in a fetal position and sobbing quietly while covered in an inch of Cheeto dust and a pile of decades-old Playboys? Just a working theory!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 Speaking of Christian assholes, Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis is a real Christian asshole. After being jailed for refusing to do her job and grant gay couples marriage licenses—as ordered by a little organization known as the Supreme Court of the United States of America—county clerk Kim Davis still won’t shut up about it, even though she’s behind bars. Now she’s saying that the marriage licenses currently being issued “without her authority” are void and “not worth the paper they’re written on” because she didn’t authorize them as an elected official. If Kim ever makes it to heaven, God is going to have a field day with her.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 It’s been a relatively upbeat week so far—so naturally, here come Donald Trump and Sarah Palin to ruin it. Yes, those two names are in the same sentence… and if Palin has her way, not for the last time! “Sarah Palin has made a pitch to be named energy secretary under a Donald Trump presidency,” the Guardian reports. The only problem, as Vox points out? “It’s not clear she even knows what the department does.” (Oh, Sarah, how we’ve missed you.) Palin recently told CNN she thinks “a lot” about the Department of Energy, because “energy is my baby: oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the Earth for mankind’s use instead of us relying on unfriendly foreign nations…” “Except this really has nothing to do with the Department of Energy,” Vox notes, “which mainly oversees the nation’s nuclear weapons program—a task consuming nearly half its budget—runs the national labs, and conducts energy R&D. What Palin wants is the Department of Interior.” Dears, we haven’t had this much fun following politics since 2012. Wonder why that is?

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 If you’ve been anywhere near the internet, you’ve likely seen the trailer for the new Will Smith movie Concussion—a film that, as the New York Times reports, was made to focus on “the death and dementia professional football players have endured from repeated hits to the head—and the NFL’s efforts toward a cover-up.” But don’t get your hopes up to see Concussion actually address the fact Americans love to watch athletes suffer severe neurological damage. “In the end even Sony, which unlike most other major studios in Hollywood has no significant business tiesto the NFL, found itself softening some points that might have been made against the multibillion-dollar sports enterprise,” the Times adds. That “softening” came to light via leaked e-mailsfrom the Sony hack, and revealed that in addition to “unflattering moments for the NFL” being cut from the film, a Sony lawyer noted “most of the bite” was taken outto keep the NFL happy.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 As the refugee crisis rages in Europe, it’s good to know celebs are keeping their focus on what’s really important. Like, say, months-old feuds with Australian agriculture ministers. Such is the case with Johnny Depp, who, as you might remember, got in trouble earlier this year when he smuggled his Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, into Australia—flouting the country’s strict biosecurity laws in order to keep the dogs nearby as he filmed Pirates of the Caribbean XXIV: Depp Blue Sea. “If we start letting movie stars come into our nation [with pets], then why don’t we just break the laws for everybody?” Australian agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce declared at the time. So that’s that, then? NOT QUITE… Because at the Venice Film Festival, Depp brought it up again. “I killed my dogs and ate them under direct orders from some kind of, I don’t know, sweaty, big-gutted man from Australia,” Depp said. Okay, so NOW can we put this incident aside? Nope, because THIS JUST IN… Via an unprecedented press release, Pistol and Boo have decided to weigh in! “This is so embarrassing,” they wrote. “We never even wanted to go to Australia!Also, help. He won’t stop dressing us up in his old scarves and—oh god. He’s coming. PLEASE HEL—”